RECENT NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7720, 1 June 1903, Page 1

RECENT NEWS.

\ ASWHiRY.

< 'JUjm ' following i* * summary of newt -"■. did; awt' aippe** in ■ StetordaVa ■•jßb*:- ; •. ; f . •-,. ■'..-.:.•■•. " General Both* will shortly visit -Engl*nd, Cli*MUi »B«I Ariitrafi^ : _ ' ■ ■ During Lord Milner'a aibsence on holiday, ■Sit lA. L*w*ey 'Wiill act' w High Oommisei'oner ,ln Soutih Amoa. , '... •.-,■• .-. •■ Admiivl ■ Sir J. B. .{Fwlhcr ih»B -been «p---jKnnrfMi to eooceed!. sAdmirai' Sa: C. -B. Hotvam *» Conjanander-in-Onief at Portsmouth. ; Mont. Pelee.i* again, active. The autnori-tiea-'ujwe the «WJuMdon iA the whole 'of the •northwa districts of tho' island of Martinique, i DisaartttOttsflooda bay» occurred in Kansas. been immense destruction of'prov jpwrty *n& b«vy loss of life, particularly at Ninth Topekal •;•;.*• , The Conuniriion recently appointed in Gteat Britain to inquire into the relations of c*pit»l"«nd labour has, been instruoted^to.re'pqn.oh • law ' applicable io trade disputes •otf combinations, and -the effeot of the modification of the law.

-.-., ■ - " ■ • ■ - ' ' : Ti« Cfammimion recently wppoanted, under the chiirmin'&ip ' wtf 'Mr A. <£■.' iMunray, to inquira iaAo.tta wSktiotos of capital *nd .labour, bis -been inatructed to import on a- 'law appKoabla to trade disputes- and 'combinaiteoas, ■nd.thee&otof tt«modiflcaiiort oi the Law.

■' The "Sirmuigbani CBuainlwr' of Commerce Jounwl " i mpptatfa to ■ weij ■ dhamber in the tM*d -pnwfa» W tdßikq ' oareroJ and disjfjjitinailifn *n(TCirt§«AM»^i: «",<&» quenhion-riQt pi^ftorsntitu UvdM' front . every standpoint. It decdarea that 'ikiii itih* roost amportan't probJem ever submitted, to the country.

\TBu» London, newspapers re-echo Mr 1 Ballour's advice to-ihrecb. out the great issue of ntefmoriul trade in ft scientific spirit and not !»■ »; ▼eb.ement xe-staiement of an old formula. MtßaJfour'a and) Mr Chamberlain's 6peeches sre. almost the «ol« topic: in business, . manufaefcuring and shipping cirolea.

At tiie •aura*! meeting erf . lihe Itook la'Vruirers' Society of Liverpool, it was resolved t3ia* Une protection foreahtgoWed by Mr Cfiwunberlain ma a mas* smaidnerouß and dJuKerooa policy asiixMi pftrarfoal worker^ beat smMrasts, and urgany tiha/Trades Union Can. grns to oigaaws ngorous opposition. | Tha Berlin newapapert predicted that Mr BaXfour would repu£»te Mr Chamberlain's uteetaooes *i. th« earliest opportunity. . They „ v»r« mow profoundly impressed *t finding that ,_:Mr Chamb«rl*in was no free Iwnce, ana thai Mr Ball oar and ;Mr Chaniberlain alike are! • in earnest. The majority of the jftempapen «re almos* (A. nuall coounittee, oonwuridntr of Wt Evelyn Oeo3 (member of iihs Smua «r Commons for Aston Wknox), as chairman^ the Paremam of "Qic Post Office, Sir John Anderson (and repieaentativw of the Indian Office, Admiralty and (Board of Trade, 0i«« been appointed^ to coausridw . tike best nwanw of providing for tbe conveyance of mails to wndi firom fbe Bast and l^uefkralia at Hhe expkwtion, of the existing mail oon'traiote.

©ir Edwaidi Gr«y, speaking «t Oxford, expr*«#ed Ihunisell vehemently hostile to Mr Oi«mb«rMn's.pvoicy, which would mean the raw. oi 'Brifo&n'* prosperity and tbe break-up <rf ' ih« Brapwe-. Freetrada. was more t'h*n ever necessary to the "Motherland's population. Tsib bonda mi& ilkv ooJonies might be drawn closer "by iainxmf mat Imperial Council . to inadntsin continuity - ot (policy and devetoip trads wuteM. ■ ■ ■

. - •JUbc J. K. Mwrriman, ape»kinjr at Cape Town, : fi«*4 thwii the cdondie* for two centuriea tsd bean bound to ©rit»in by trade farters, 3eadbig to Hh# wtablMthnTenii of Khe United States, 13ie destiny mwntionod-in Mr Bal'fbur's speech. Mir Oh»mberl-ain a»ked Hke (Empire to deol«re' BsotJl war against iie world. -M!r ■Chamibe*t«in'« id^M raessged 1 the (Empire's- down-fall, 1 wndcfc yrow. dtl^ax^iowAj aflfeist the world. H» didnot belj«ve't^t troid« preference would ben«& 6 tihe colondea, end would assuredly be •vinous «nd dteastrous to Britain.

; Mr Badhaid BeM (•ecnrtary of- ti© Amtil•Mttnated Sooiofy , of B*ilw«y Senranto), tSx ■', fcnir-Hiirdi* mma SCr W. Orook* (the recmtlyl>ebted k.bour member iar Woolwich) were „ Interviewed on. Mr Ghaaaberl'ain.'a propoaal*. '■- hXty.ime tortile, and started that they were. anablie to 'conceive employers raising wages : tolflW in t«Bponß6 -to iihe flrfiting methods )wual in tibe piatt. I£t G>. N: Bacnes, secsretaoy •'•- af tihe i&io3(algamated Society of Engineers, eacpressed th* eaunef views, but, admitted that (way workers 1 wpaKt he inflacnced 'by i tih« sen- ' ShdpniUA - obußtderatiotL of 'binding tSio (Empire %/l^geflwr. •_-, ■'■■■■ :• ■; ■ •_■■ • '